Victoria Mercanton
Illustration — Victoria Mercanton in 1989 Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-Mercanton (1911–2007), was a French film editor and director, born Viktoria Aleksandrovna Pozner on 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1911, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, active from the 1930s to 1970s. Known as Toto, she was a frequent collaborator on the films of Roger Vadim since his directorial debut in 1956 with And God Created Woman. After surviving a couple of disastrous fires of nitrate film in the editing suite - including one which claimed the life of a director sitting next to her — Mercanton successfully lobbied the government to legislate that the French film industry switch to safety film by the mid-1950s.
Also recorded as Viktoriya Pozner
Victoria Mercanton
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- Victoria Pozner.
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- 1911. · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- 2007. · 15th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- film director and film editor.
- Languages
- French.
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She flippantly explained to Vadim, "You understand, I wanted to be able to smoke my Gauloises while working."
Daughter of Russian Jews Aleksandr and Elizaveta Pozner. Her family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. • Husband — film editor Roger Spiri-Mercanton • Brother — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner • Nephew — Vladimir Pozner
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